Who were the Anglo-Saxons?

Britain is a diverse island inhabited by many different groups and cultures. In this video, we will talk about the origin of the most important single group in British history - The Anglo-Saxons.
Check out the second part at: • The Anglo-Saxon Settle...
And the third part at: • The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy
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History of the Vikings and Norse Culture: books.google.pt/books?id=W6Os...
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[@Franky46Boy]

When my brother was an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy, he was assigned for one year to a patrol boat of the navy that was involved in fishery inspection on the North Sea. One day they were at a Scottish fishing town where the local population spoke a language that nobody could understand, except for two Dutch sailors onboard who were... of Frisian descend! 😃

[@kentabrahamsson]

Did they speak Scots?

[@Hansjoh21]

@@kentabrahamsson Frisian is the language most closely related to English and Scots

[@kentabrahamsson]

@Hansjoh21 A Scandinavian speaker (without using English skills) can understand some Scots and Frisian if spoken very slowly. I assume the absence of words of French origin helps as well.

[@matthewkent5212]

@@Hansjoh21 I'm a native English speaker and dont understand Frisian spoken or written.

[@godominus9222]

@@matthewkent5212 If it was spoken you would understand it a little more than written, but if we were able to have an English today that was not influenced by French or Danish, we would be having a different conversation. They are VERY related, but a lot of the Old English roots are lost to time.

[@DieLuftwaffel]

The intro was a nice big "don't cancel me" disclaimer.

[@03e-210a]

I thought the same too

[@teetea8698]

Isn’t it the history of England?

[@aiocafea]

that's a bit of a stretch, none of these videos get 'cancelled' by calling england white or germanic or anglo-saxon, and i've never seen a comment asking for the inclusion of commonwealth migrants into these videos the intro about somewhat-recent migration was spun into a segue towards older migrations i would say this is even more 'cancellable' since it seems like it's implying the recent migrations are anywhere near the scale of the angles, saxons and jutes that reshaped the isles but then again, i imagine since you commented about cancel culture that you're also afraid of naturalised brits

[@MJW238]

Everything in the world doesn’t have to be about cancel culture and wokeness. Just give us one day of rest.

[@rvdb8876]

As an (east) Fleming, I can confirm that the West Flemish dialect has similarities with Frisian. With which I do not claim that they are 100% similar, but to me it is clearly audible that there is a Frisian influence in the West Flemish dialect. History also teaches us that the Frisians traveled along the North Sea coast as far as Dunkirk, present-day French Flanders.

[@AJ_B_]

Frisian is Anglo-Saxon, and the western part of flanders was setteld by saxons and jutes.

[@Franky46Boy]

@@AJ_B_ No, Frisian is related to Anglo-Saxon, but not the same. It is part of the languages spoken by the Jutes.

[@jehl1963]

You kind of skipped over the Frisians, whose language of the time (Old Frisian) was distinctly differant than Alt-Saxonish, and is in fact the closest relative of Old English. The Frisians lived in the coastal regions of the Jutes, Angles and Saxons, and still do to this day.

[@aldosigmann419]

Sigh...we Frisians always get skipped over....😭😭😭

[@vivaelespanolylahispanidad4072]

They will always skip little details. To this day England is still just pushed by London, it is not a British idea nor do any of the other versions of Britain like it or appreciate it. For Spain our history is told by the London language all distorted, only negatives, still trying to split the country, invade people, consider themselves a empire, yet they will never mention anything negative about themselves, push for their own unity while ruling people on their own Island. It is a curse to the planet that tells the world we would of never had it better with anyone else.

[@vivaelespanolylahispanidad4072]

@@aldosigmann419 If you guys push your own identiy underground like Northern Ireland was forced to, the Welsh, the Scots... then they may not skip you in the future, but be prepared to have every aspect of your history told how they want the world to hear it.

[@Franky46Boy]

When my brother was an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy, he was assigned for one year to a patrol boat of the navy that was involved in fishery inspection on the North Sea. One day they were at a Scottish fishing town where the local population spoke a language that nobody could understand, except for two Dutch sailors onboard who were... of Frisian descend! 😃

[@idealicfool]

@@aldosigmann419 who? But seriously, I can just hear Hilbert clearing his throat somewhere 😅

[@Kryhavoc-2]

It's sad to witness the demise of a thousand years old culture.

[@thicclegendfeep4050]

As someone of English ancestry, it feels awesome to learn about my ancestors, just wish we had more sources and a better understanding of the Anglo Saxon period, especially pre-christianity, I wanna see just how similar our ancestors' beliefs were to their cousins across the North Sea

[@visvirtutis8441]

I mean back then Saxons on both sides of the sea weren't mere cousins but saw themselves as the same people or tribe living in seperate kindoms, that's at least what I got from studying early medieval german history

[@jeanvaljean7266]

*"Germanic vs Scandinavian Tribes. How different were they?"* kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5Owh3dnrtyZbJI *"Norse/Germanic Ancestry and Religion in the British Isles"* kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHmTpYqkfL6njM0 *"The Different Germanic Tribes"* kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIqti6R6qL5lo7s&t

[@frekitheravenous516]

All of us. Be it Norse, continental "Germanic" tribes or the Anglo-Saxons of England. We ALL worshipped the same pantheon. Names may alter somewhat by region, i.e. - Wotan/Woden/Odin or Thurisaz/Thunor/Thor and so on. As would rituals and so on. But all believed in the Aesir. I am 48 and have been "Pagan" since 12 yrs old. I am also English and Swedish with a drop of Danish. So I studied all aspects of my Pagan ancestry. So that's that. I hope it helps. I know it's a short answer. But it is what i know to be true. Cheers.

[@user-mf7xr8yi8x]

Anglo-Saxon origins in the Saxony region of Denmark in Jutland and northern Germany.

[@jesusbermudez6775]

Just pass the page, move on.

[@4wheelliving132]

I'm Dutch but my sister had one of those dna test done and it showed we were 33% northern European and 43% English. This pretty much explains why, they are both from the same area

[@Carewolf]

Yeah, the problem is DNA tests are 10% science and 100% entertainment. They are not really supposed to make sense.

[@MJW238]

@@CarewolfParticularly, as this video says, English literally is Northern European. How does this test distinguish between the two?

[@LisaFan135]

We're all so closely related in NW Europe, these DNA tests can often give conflicting results. Ancestry DNA seem overly keen to include a lot of NW European DNA into their 'Scottish' group.@@MJW238

[@kingofthejungle3833]

@4:07 it's worth pointing that the most likely correct pronunciation of the 'Jutes' would be 'Yutes' as the Germans pronounce the letter 'J' with the 'Y' sound

[@SunofYork]

As in the film Cousin Vinny where Vinny calls 'Youths' "Yutes"... (New York accent)

[@reese_rinde]

I heard they spoke French then,no?

[@thunderchild1083]

In England when I was growing up we learned about the Angles and Saxons but never really were taught about the Jutes (as far as I remember, maybe a small mention), this period ended in 1066 when William the Conquer beat Harold Godwinson at the battle of Hastings

[@LarsCarlsen-or6ky]

The Saxons knew all the Angles.

[@analothor]

​@@LarsCarlsen-or6ky clever

[@michaelalancope9729]

Engle is plural for Angle so to use the word English for ancient Anglians is perfectly fine.

[@micahistory]

great video, I am looking forward to part two

[@Anglo-Saxon-96]

We Anglo Saxon came from Southern Denmark and northern Germany that where are ancestors came from and I'm proud of that fact Germanic till I die

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

Do you still worship trees like your grandfathers?

[@dieterschindler6409]

When you refer to the German state of Saxony ( Sachsen) which is a lot further south than the original homeland of the Saxons, it's may be interesting to know that there are 3 states in modern Germany which are called Saxony. ( Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony ) The latter two span all over northern Germany and are more or less identical with the historic duchy of Saxony and cover also parts of the original homeland of the early saxons.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Lower Saxony are a bunch of Germanized Slavs who became Saxon because their king was a dynasty of Saxons who imposed himself on cultureless Slavs

[@egay86292]

are peopke who spoke Saxon called Saxophones?

[@Scoti17]

​@@egay86292 only the people that sings old saxon Songs. :D

[@RayyMusik]

@@egay86292 😂

[@frankmitchell3594]

Were they the people of the Elbe valley?

[@johnbattle7518]

Very interesting and informative video. I never heard of the Jutes and now you have sparked my interests and got a new subscriber, thanks.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

Did the Vikings understand the Anglo-Saxons because they were from the same land?

[@johnbattle7518]

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j They were both of Germanic languages not the same but had some similar words so I do believe there were some forms of communication.

[@TheBarser]

Im jute. Now you also heard of me 🙂

[@johnbattle7518]

@@TheBarserIs the name Jure still used or is it extinct for something else.

[@TheBarser]

@@johnbattle7518 western Denmark is the jutland peninsula. And the people here are called jutes in English. In Danish we say its Jylland, and the People living here are Jyder. It's kinda funny for me to think that the danes originated in southern sweden/Sealand and then took over the jutes and angles. Then later lost 50% of the Danes homeland to the swedes

[@MrMegaDanila]

bro, even as a slavic person, when i hear the saxon word "sek", i think of the russian (and probably in other slavic languages) the word "sech" which also means "to cut". It is truly crazy how this is either a large coincidence, or, and what I believe to be more accurate, is that our european roots are not as different as we really think...

[@starwberriez]

crazy to think also how words evolve from other words because sek/sech means "to cut" and i thought of the word section which kind of in a way has a similar correlation in meaning

[@KnowHistory]

All of them are Indo-european languages! They did in fact come all from the same ""tribe"" so to speak! It too fascinates me to see similarities between languages thought to be so different! It's a constant reminder of their shared roots!

[@personalpanda-yi2op]

Living thousands of kilometers away but I can relate that word with Indian Arya language words cērā, cheraa, sinnya which all mean "to cut" "divide" etc. We also use "Kartan" "Kata" "Katna" etc words for cut in different Arya languages in India. It's no such a big thing that's because of the Aryan invasion of Euro Native population and their displacement.

[@egay86292]

Indo-European is just that: enormous.

[@micheltibon6552]

The term seax is used specifically for a type of small sword, knife or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons, whose name derives from the weapon. Before the Migration Period the Romans also fought the Germanic Dacians on the Danube. The Dacian falx came in two sizes: one-handed and two-handed. The shorter variant was called sica (sickle) in the Dacian language. The blade was sharpened only on the inside and was reputed to be devastatingly effective.

[@hansbonde2044]

So awesome to see this!

[@celestialweaver8460]

Love your videos! Hope to see your channel grow

[@KnowHistory]

Thank you so much for the support! Hopefully it will!

[@DonFlufflesPrime]

This is a great video! It's very informative and to the point. It's also interesting to see you using the CK3 map and characters, I haven't seen a history video do that before but it gives it a very unique feel which I think more people need to use. It's interesting for me to see just how different modern-day English culture is to continental Germanic cultures such as German, Norwegian, and Danish, assumedly due to the Norman takeover of the Kingdom. I wonder what it'd be like if England repelled the Normans, or even if the Norwegians took over. English culture and language today would probably be much more similar to their Germanic cousins, and the language more like Anglish. (The purely Germanic form of English)

[@KnowHistory]

Thank you so much! The game assets are too good to be wasted, they make the content 100x better! I've once seen a youtube video comparing modern english to a creole language from the amount of non-germanic vocabulary it uses, IIRC it's like only 26% germanic? which is even lower than the % of latin borrowed words! The british melting pot culture is such an interesting concept!

[@DonFlufflesPrime]

@@KnowHistory Really? I heard it was around 50% Germanic but only around 25-30% pure English with the rest of the Germanic words coming from Norse and Danish. I'll have to look into it more, but if it really is only 26% Germanic it definitely would lean closer to a creole language.

[@DonFlufflesPrime]

@@KnowHistory Ah well I'm a bit embarrassed now, English is only 26% percent Germanic! Bit of a shock to me, although I think it is interesting to note the divide between when Germanic words are used and when French/Latin words are used. 80 of the 100 most commonly used English words are Germanic in origin, and I've noticed most of the words used in normal conversation are largely Germanic. However, things such a professions, titles, new inventions and country names come from either French or Latin origin, which could be a remnant of the divide between the largely Anglo-Saxon lower class of the medieval ages contrasted with the Norman French nobility which spoke only French until around the late 1400's. Interesting to think about!

[@KnowHistory]

@@DonFlufflesPrime Accordng to some graphs i saw yes! they might be biased the the fact that it might be more latin than german is very impressive on its own right!

[@DonFlufflesPrime]

@@KnowHistory Hah! And who said the English weren't sons of Rome?

[@hayrogarciga924]

Looking forward to the next one!

[@KnowHistory]

Thank you! Hopefully it is coming next month!

[@rossbabcock3790]

Good video! I think you touched on some important points often overlooked.

[@echo-trip-1]

I live in the German state of Saxony (Sachsen). Some people around here think that means the Anglo-Saxons had some connection to this region. And they find linguistic examples to make it sound possible, such as the fact that "water" is said here in the local dialects instead of "wasser" (from high German). There are many other examples. Some of it is about the accent, such as the vowel pronunciations. .

[@aboba5995]

1) Saxons migrated from Lower Saxony and later united new England (Old England was in Germany, in modern peninsula Anglia), the first king of new England was Saxon. 2) Plautdietsch language in Germany comes from the Old Saxon language, it's related to Frisian, Anglic because of their Ingvaeonic roots. Old Jutish also was related, but we don't have modern speakers (assimilated by Danes) and language records. Plautdietsch: ik lev di English: i love thee

[@calum5975]

Unfortunately the Saxons in question would have been Saxons from the State now known as Lower Saxony. The Historic borders of "saxony" has shifted around, yet Lower Saxony specifically is where the Saxons who migrated to Britain would have been from.

[@sebe2255]

@@calum5975 Yeah the German state of Saxony isn’t actually Saxon ethnically, Lower Saxony is the actual Saxony

[@user-bl6so2iw3y]

Water in Low German would be "Water' too

[@callsigndd9ls897]

No, there are no linguistic connections to today's "new" Saxony. Today's Saxony has nothing to do with the old Saxony in northern Germany. The ancient Saxons spoke the old Low German language, which was very closely related to Old English. The land of the ancient Saxons lay in what are now the German states of Lower Saxony, southern Schleswig-Holstein, western Saxony-Anhalt and, to a lesser extent, the north-eastern Netherlands. Today's "new" Saxony got its name from the Wettins, whose family roots go back to old Saxony. The tribes that settled in the "new" Saxony were mainly Frankish tribes and assimilated Slavs.

[@CountCristo]

Nicely presented and interesting video. Thanks.

[@KnowHistory]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@brandonchdib5380]

I was thinking about doing something similar, making a history video using imperator romes map or eu4s (eu4s so i can change borders easier).

[@paulwiley8902]

I'm English, British, with 17% Iberian, and they were in Britain before the Anglo Saxons.

[@MiloManning05]

Iberians were never in Britain

[@paulwiley8902]

@@MiloManning05 You know nothing, Spanish tribes got to England between 6,000 and 7,000 years ago. A bit of simple research and you'll find out. Google "Iberians in Britain" for a start.

[@paulwiley8902]

@@MiloManning05 The Google search result, and that's confirmed from various sources. About 2000 years B.C. pre-celtic people had already settled in Great Britain. These were called the Iberians. Probably they came from Spain, which was also called the Iberian penisula.

[@joenichols3901]

Cool video - I've always wondered what my genetic makeup actually is. DNA results just show 99% Western European and 1% Finnish. It was unsurprising as I have always deeply loved steam rooms so it was just verification some Viking snuck in at some point

[@ZacharyAlexanderGoh]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I love this comment

[@demeare-_-3360]

Finns were never Vikinger, they actually are related to Turks and Mongols

[@allu3853]

@@demeare-_-3360 "Turks and Mongols" LOL stop spreding false information

[@demeare-_-3360]

@@allu3853 "Finns originate between the Volga, Oka and Kama rivers in what is now Russia. The genetic basis of future Finns also emerged in this area. There have been at least two noticeable waves of migration to the west by the ancestors of Finns, which is also shared by Turks and Mongols"

[@John_Jim]

@@demeare-_-3360 You're talking about two language families originating from roughly the same area. You're jumping to conclusions.

[@benh715]

I’m not sure that people whose families have been on this island for less than 50 years can claim to be equally British as those who have called it home for over 1000.

[@buddhachimp9226]

100%

[@ollietedd295]

So does passage of time alone decide wether or not your British?

[@buddhachimp9226]

@@ollietedd295 It's not just the passage of time, (which does play a factor btw) its also the case, in my view, that assimilating ethnic foreigners of European descent is possible if done in small enough numbers to assimilate them genetically and culturally, but importing alien races to Europe from completely different cultures in large numbers is non-sustainable and they can't be "made" British, rather they begin to change British identity to a multi-racial one, the Brazilifcation of Britain.

[@benh715]

@@ollietedd295 Integration, which requires the passage of time. By that I mean the shared values, culture, sense of home. It doesn’t need to take 50 years, but when you live in an ethnic enclave, speaking a different language, watching different TV, supporting foreign sports teams, following different cultural norms to the majority of the population, that’s not British.

[@ollietedd295]

@@buddhachimp9226 how would you describe the Anglo Saxon migration to England then? Was that non-sustainable? There's no fixed idea of British there never has and there never will be. Modern migrations are just the latest and may I add as far as migrations go they have been peaceful and rather successful. You said it yourself time is needed for proper integration and we are still in the early days so just be patient.

[@billmclaurin6959]

The Saxons, Frisians, Jutes and Angles are sometimes collectively called the 'Ingaevones' and this may be a derivative of Angles. Some sources have even claimed that there is an island near southern Denmark called Anglen where the Angles originated from.

[@PortmanRd]

This particular subject fascinates me as when I looked up the meaning of my surname I was somewhat surprised that it came up as old English/pre 7th century Germanic. My surname translates to Wulfnoth, and it means brave or bold Wolf. Up the road from where my Mum lives is a little village called Woolpit which translates to Wolf pit. Apparently these were dug by early Anglo-Saxon settlers to trap British wolves.

[@martijn9568]

Didn't also a bunch of Frisians migrate to Great Brittain?

[@calum5975]

Yep! Unfortunately due to the way the video is structured (and the forthcoming series, there will be more parts!) the Frisians have had to take a backseat somewhat in this one. They will certainly appear in the next episodes, especially when we cover Frisian settlement in Kent. Given as the 'heptarchy' is generally thought of as predominantly Angle, Saxon and Jute dominated and the Frisians had no Kingdom of their own in England, they'll be treated more of an 'accessory' to the others - Specifically the Jutes who the Frisians often mingled with and lived alongside. It certainly confuses it more that the Jutes may have indeed come from Frisia, meaning that many Jutes may have been Frisian and visa versa. - the Narrator 😊

[@martijn9568]

@@calum5975 Ah thank you for elaborating on that!

[@gamdanyunizar7849]

I like this relaxed way of presenting, it's easier to understand, wish it was longer lol

[@KnowHistory]

There will be more parts coming, it's expected to be a 3 part series! next part is the anglo Saxon settlement of Britain and it is already being written!

[@gamdanyunizar7849]

@@KnowHistory Heck yes! I'm also curious who are the anglo saxon's ancestors and where they came from but I guess it's just too obscure? I'm excited to see this channel to grow and am subbing!

[@calum5975]

@@gamdanyunizar7849 The migrations of the Germanic peoples and their existence in Europe is somewhat unknowable, as is most history of that age. We can hypothesise things based on language and archaelogical finds, that's mostly it.

[@Valhalla88888]

The Picts are the orginal celts in Great Britain 🇬🇧 and they arrived from Scandinavia when there was a landbridge via Doggerland 10000 years ago

[@greghart6310]

Its not who "were" the Anglo Saxons, its who we ARE!

[@outoftheblu__]

great video!

[@KnowHistory]

Thank you!

[@user-gg7xg2js6l]

My family were Angelo Saxons from Lincolnshire Essex England United kingdom just found out Sir Thomas Holland is my grandfather way back pretty neat for a small town Kentucky boy God bless you all I'm dutch and 6'0 tall and proud of it 💪❤️🌹

[@natej1026]

A fun thing to consider is that although the word Saxon almost definitely refers to the “seax”, it’s also later the case that Saxon became a racial pejorative word in Celtic languages. Sasunnach was used by the Scots, Sasanach by the Irish, Saeson by the Welsh, and Sawsnek by the Cornish.

[@josemaurosantos1531]

Your haplogroup is: I Born between 35 and 28 thousand years ago, haplogroup I represents one of the first peoples of Europe, having several descendant lineages that spread throughout the European territory during the last Ice Age, having its maximum frequency in the Balkans. It is one of the most numerous haplogroups among European males, being the second largest paternal lineage found on the continent (second only to the R lineage). Its I1 branch is related to Nordic Europe, ancestor of Germanic tribes and Vikings, while I2 is strongly related to Neolithic cultures. Y-chromosomal Adam 160 to 120 thousand years A: Africa 140 to 90 thousand years BT: Africa 85 to 60 thousand years CT: Africa 80 to 60 thousand years CF: Leaving Africa 75 to 60 thousand years F: Leaving Africa 62 to 57 thousand years IJ: Haplogroup parent of I and J 45 to 30 thousand years I: Eastern Eurasia 35 to 28 thousand years.

[@andrewshaw7343]

Equally British? If I emigrate to the US, can I be equally Native American?

[@JoePruessner1]

Thanks for this excellent, informative video.

[@meredithbarber2808]

I would love to see a video on the early Anglo Saxon kings and the Normans... and kings with descriptive name titles like Edward the confessor...(and the times these people lived). Early English kings are such a puzzle and fascinating I think because they are so distant from our own time

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

The question is, did the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons understand each other's language because they were from the same land?

[@theCosmicQueen]

all you have to do is search youtube.

[@johnny_roots]

So basically when the Vikings invaded and begun to fight the Anglo-Saxons, it was just northern scandinavians vs southern scandinavians lol

[@KnowHistory]

Assassin's Creed Valhalla makes a joke about that ahah the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings are commenting how their words for certain things are very similar "as if they were cousins or something" ahah

[@johnny_roots]

@@KnowHistory awesome! The Assassin's creed series is so rich in historical details at times!

[@henner645]

The modern German state of Saxony has nothing to do with the Saxons of ancient past. It just got the name because of some noblility which transferred the name onto this region. Only the modern day "Lower Saxony" can be called real Saxons.

[@themallster3193]

I love how this video uses stuff from ck3

[@krcmaine]

Cultural migration study is where it's at. I think we get too caught up on political bounderies. I began doing more human migration studies after I got my DNA results. I'm a Euro-Mut, but there were surprises...and I have done genealogy for 15+ years now, so they aren't *those* kinds of surprises either.

[@KnowHistory]

I wish to test my DNA someday, I've always wondered about the wereabouts of my ancestors!

[@krcmaine]

@@KnowHistory I meant to reply to this earlier...but Checkout the Geneavlogger KZbin Channel. He does a series on KZbinrs who want to explore their DNA/Genealogy. His day job is in forensic DNA analysis. I bet he'd be up for a callab!

[@ferbsol2334]

Idk it was call migration when you conquer and enslave the locals i see

[@billnye7323]

What about the Bretons (now who are mainly part of Brittany, France)

[@KnowHistory]

That's a interesting topic for a future video!

[@cymro6537]

Many came from Britain - hence the name

[@lulitafa4784]

English very kind people,,Greetings from 🇦🇱

[@Alex.af.Nordheim]

0:06 Why did you omit the Norse/Scandinavian as part of the heritage?

[@srenclausen8534]

This invasion is 400 - 500 years before the "north" viking invasion.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

​@@srenclausen8534 But they are of the same people and race

[@Maxbiggy]

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j You have mental issues

[@billmclaurin6959]

You forgot to mention the Frisians. BTW it was the Bell Beaker invasion of the early Bronze Age that was the most transformative event in English/British history.

[@luffyseyepatch7952]

Solid video

[@KnowHistory]

Thank you!

[@andreasandoval6359]

Exelente video!!

[@KnowHistory]

Thank you!

[@matthewmann8969]

They were a germanic people simple.

[@AmitKumar-xx9pl]

Thanks a million 👍

[@bluesdealer]

“The past was no different” Cope. It was incredibly different. Sorry you now have Londonistan.

[@paulinepardue678]

My ancestry is Anglo Saxon.

[@FilipeCardoso1]

Muito detalhado. Gostei!

[@thepiratepenguin4465]

So when the Danes invaded England during the Viking Age, they were technically fighting other Danes.

[@PackHunter117]

You forgot the Frisians.

[@huehuehuejuazjuazjuaz3478]

Great video. Well explained

[@KnowHistory]

Thank you!

[@stretfordender11]

@@KnowHistory interesting video. Your map is abit off. The Saxons were along the entire coast of Northern Europe. Including part of modern France.

[@bigsilverorb3492]

Not sure why Doggarland rarely comes into some of the more historical perspectives on the the peoples of Denmark and Britain.

[@weyjosh5213]

watching this while i conquer the isles as the saxons

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Britain is Greater Denmark.

[@mann536]

England*

[@roryfantasy4750]

(And france and italy and others)

[@benmacdui9328]

England

[@sudjarwowaru8795]

The Dagmar colony

[@AngelSanchez-xc5ue]

There were Celtic people Vikings Cornish and Amish people in Britain

[@Valhalla88888]

English are Germanic not British or Brits the original Brits are the Welsh even the Picts in today's Scotland were a Scandinavian tribe 2300 years ago. It was the Picts that raided today's Ireland in the 2nd century working with the Scotii ❤

[@MDCF1565]

Born in Walsgrave on Sowe UK 1970, living in St Augustine Florida USA. I have family in Wales, Scotland & England, most living in Walsgrave, Warwickshire, Coventry. Coombes - BORN OF SAXON

[@martinjackman2943]

Angarion isthe roman word used for the despatch riders of Germanic tribal origin who maintained the imperial postal and haulage system in Roman Britain that is where the name Angle originates These kinfolk settled in England but maintained links with the germanic tribes who were their kin. Some retired back to their kin folk in Angeln. Angeln is named after the people not the other way round

[@hansbonde2044]

I’m full Saxon on both sides!

[@huntergray3985]

Well done with the wokery, but I take exception to your facile declaration that "the past, of course, was no different... The British have a proud heritage of being made up of migratory people..." The immigration of the Angle. Saxon and Jutes totally destroyed the Celtic culture of, what became, England. The invasion of the Anglo-Saxons and Jutes was, in effect, an ethnic genocide pushing the Celts to the extremities of the British Isles. After this there was no mass immigration to the British Isles for over 1,000 years. True, there were minor settlements that included the Normans (who were, of course, Viking/Norsemen, a group that had already settled parts of the British Isles,) Huguenot French and other smaller groups up to the settlement of West Indians and people of the Indian subcontinent in the late twentieth century. But none of these peoples formed a big enough group to change the ethnicity or culture of the British Isles. My main point is that the mass immigration of the last fifteen years is of a totally different scale to anything that has happened in the last thousand years or more. It is simply not true that the "British have a proud heritage of being made up of migratory people." The culture/s of the British Isle have been settled for over a thousand years.

[@nicky_nike]

We have had 1000 years to consolidate into our own ethnicity and have proved we are a powerful tribe. The mass immigration since WW2 is irrelevant to our ethnicity as they have formed themselves into autonomous communities with no mixing with the indigenous. We have voluntary apartheid.

[@thenakedtruth7136]

And at least the immigrants in the past, Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Jutes, Vikings and Normans were all native to the continent of Europe, unlike the immigrants of the present time.

[@aadamkhan5217]

@@thenakedtruth7136Why does that matter?

[@Heatwave9000]

​@@aadamkhan5217 Cuz they're white europeans 🤦.

[@advanceaustralia386]

The British are an AngloCeltic nation of people. It’s preposterous to call Africans and Asians British. Ethnically and culturally they are entirely different.

[@Salvino110]

Great video

[@Carewolf]

Your area for where the anglos come from isn't Slesvig-Holstein, but just Slesvig, in particular you are missing the Angle region that gives them their name.

[@christopherfritz3840]

In only a little longer than five minutes this historical lesson capsulates the absurdity when AH☠️ failed to end hostile action against England after Dunkirk. He KNEW enough that they were.. 'family'! He had the 'land'.. they had the 'sea'. "Let's settle"🤘 Coulda, Woulda, SHOULDA....

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

The germanic migration period is very fascinating to me do to being so speculative because it lacks written sources

[@rustytiger900]

For me, being from the Northeast of England when referring this period and people I prefer to say Angle(s) and Saxon(s), but use Anglo-Saxon when referring to the culture.

[@Lakershowtime]

Narrow Sea from the Anglos Esos from Eotas I see what you did their George RR Martin

[@seanwebb605]

I'm a mix of anglo, saxon and celtic. But it's just easier to say Canadian.

[@davehart9972]

even easier to say WHITE person.

[@MilesRules97]

Something I’ve been thinking about, you talk about how Britain is now home to a host of other ethnic groups as if it were a good thing, but when the britains/celts were pushed out of their home by the anglos, saxons, and jutes, it was certainly a violent process that left the natives disenfranchised. Considering this, why should we be happy about migrants replacing native Brits?

[@josemaurosantos1531]

José's DNA indicates that 58% of his ancestry comes from Africa. Africa 58% Europe 35% Western Europe 18% Germany, France and the Netherlands British Isles Iberia 8% Italy 5% Northern Italy south central italy eastern europe 4% Americas 7%

[@keepitbluezola]

Excelltly explained. Even though I consider myself well educated on this part of history, there is a few facts here I wasn’t aware of.

[@RexFuturi]

My main curiosity for the migrations of Europe is how much of it was actual genetic replacement and how much was cultural replacement. In Britain, you get waves of new peoples: Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Danes and Norse, and Normans (and how much of the Normans was still Danes/Norse?). Who were the Suebi? The Teutons? The Salians and Franks? Et cetera. Did these people become new names later or were they replaced or displaced? As far as I can tell, no one really knows.

[@pedrosabino8751]

If im right, the salians were one of the tribes of franks, the franks of west

[@RexFuturi]

@@pedrosabino8751 Maybe. But they were distinct from the other people called Franks. They might not have been related at all. I read one theory that suggested the Salians were actually separated by religious difference or were some specific sect of Odin worshippers.

[@thicclegendfeep4050]

Genetic studies have shown that English people have up to 40% Anglo Saxon ancestry, with the rest being indigenous Celtic and a bit of other outside admixtures like Romans, Normans, Norse, ect, which vary in proportion regionally. So technically English have slightly more Celtic blood, but their culture and language are strongly rooted in their Anglo Saxon/Germanic, half, also most of their Y Haplogroup is traced to Germanic migrations. So while yes, all indigenous peoples of the Brittish isles have predominantly Celtic ancestry, what separates the English from the rest is their substantial amount of Germanic ancestry

[@RexFuturi]

@@thicclegendfeep4050 genetics in Britain vary wildly by location and, even in any given location, by random chance of ancestry.

[@thicclegendfeep4050]

@@RexFuturi I guess specific percentages, yeah, but pretty much all English people are a mix of Anglo Saxon and Briton, meanwhile the rest of the peoples in Britain are mostly Celtic with some varying levels of Germanic admixture (mainly Anglo Saxon and Norse)

[@teller1290]

Love how narrator acts like there's no difference between importing Jutes or Angles vs Haji by the millions.

[@tom4381]

Some Danish and French once came to Britain 1000 years ago, so now we have to accept thousands of Sub Saharan and Pakistanis 🫠

[@theCosmicQueen]

huge difference.

[@willhelmberkly3025]

I think that the only reasonable comparison is that all of these periods of "immigration" were actually invasions.

[@gd5066]

Are there parts of Britain that have the highest anglo saxon dna or is everyone pretty much mixed now? I always imagined the east coast would have higher levels.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

How can I tell them apart when they are of the same race

[@Maxbiggy]

Anglo-saxons primarily live in the south and east of england. There is actually some good data on it. Places like ireland, wales, cornwall, scotland and northern england have admixture to varying degrees.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

@@Maxbiggy Why did the Vikings not understand the language of the Anglo-Saxons, who are of the same race?

[@gd5066]

@@Maxbiggy thank you

[@Maxbiggy]

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j The languages are different, the races are somewhat similar but not the same. Pretty obvious if you look at english people and then look at danes, swedes or norwegians. English definitely have e a .different look.

[@bobcat409]

Nice job

[@davidlloyd2225]

I'm saxon and celt and fiercely proud and demand respect for my ancestry..woden lives❤💯

[@egay86292]

as if.

[@ginch8300]

"demand respect for my ancestry" One of the most pathetic sentences ever written on KZbin, well done sir.

[@anthonyphillips2874]

Unfortunately the current woke nonsense wants to erase our history, their are much better history channels to get a better perspective

[@user-zw1xs8qw9y]

woden may live, but only as a demon, and is not comparable to the Triune God.

[@sherb9892]

Ok clown

[@stonedape2406]

The Jutes may have also been Geats who migrated to Jutland, before migrating down through the low countries. ". Today's Jylland was pronounced Jutland (like many dialects still do with the double l) and I heard from a linguist that the J had more like a G-sound initially. So if you think about it, the difference between Götaland, Gotland and (G)Jutland is very small." The Jutes also still kept a south scandinavian trade connection, but had a strong element of Gaulish/Frankish works due to Jutish Kent being in close proximity to Frankia, and possibly a domain of Frankia at one point.

[@olafharoldsonnii4713]

Geates were Goths

[@theoderich1168]

Niedersachsen (=Lower Saxony and Sachsen-Anhalt = Saxony-Anhalt respectively ) is the true home of the ancient Saxons; today's Saxony was more or less part of Thuringia until 1485 and its name resulted from changes/shifts in the ruling dynasties. Ethnically and linguistically they don't have much in common.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

How was their kingdom in the Middle Ages in Germany

[@amschelco.1434]

Is an anglo saxon a kind of race?

[@skillbopster]

Ethnicity.

[@BajanEnglishman51]

Germanic.

[@Graplernapler]

Equally British? Cmon

[@LearnRunes]

At what point in history? For the Anglo-Saxons are still here too.

[@markthervguy]

The artist depiction of the Saxon holding a sword has that sword depicted wrong. The hilt is too long and is gripped wrong. The Seax depicted is a broke back seax and was found primarily only in England. The continental Saxon seax did not have that steep clipped feature. They had a more rounded back that led to a dropped down point. This presented inaccurate information as s result.

[@millevenon5853]

Anglos created two superpowers and now dominate Europe and the world. Welldone

[@rc59191]

Now the colored hebrew israelite movement is going around telling a straight up lie about how the Anglo Saxons were black along with the Emperors of Japan and Norse Jarls. History revisionist need to be stopped.

[@skillbopster]

We are under an invasion.

[@zorradone]

They're out of Europe now...

[@Haijwsyz51846]

Yet, the English language is composed mostly of French and Latin. That means those cultures influenced England the most.

[@EasternOrthodox101]

@@Haijwsyz51846 Wrong, where did you get that from? English is a Germanic language which only uses the Latin ALPHABET. French also, but it is more influenced by Latin in the language itself

[@hwica2753]

I read that possibly only 20,000 Angles, Saxons and Jutes invaded England that had a population of a couple of million. Like many invasions, it's the culture and language that is replaced, not the population.

[@MiloManning05]

That isn’t true

[@hwica2753]

@@MiloManning05 Can you explain why it isn't true?

[@MiloManning05]

@@hwica2753 downplaying Anglo Saxon heritage in Britain is a thing of the past

[@MaryCeleste86]

Angeln is the name of the peninsula.

[@Jin-Ro]

Who ARE. We're still here.

[@aheat3036]

The real British and American people!!

[@bartoszbeling8928]

It is funny that in Poland "Anglo-Saxon" means a spawn of American and British culture yet it is actually a ethnic disticnion.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

Well, the Anglo-Saxons were racist with the indigenous Vikings. The evil don't change

[@holz6661]

The German state of "Saxony" in the east of Gemany has nothing whatsoever to do with the Saxons. It is a name-borowing by August the Strong. The Saxons lived in the North West of Germany (Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Westphalia). They were besieged by the Franks, who lived in the Netherlands, Belgium and Rhineland, . The real Saxons spoke Low German. The Franks spoke Franconian from which Dutch and the German dialects along the Rhine originate from. Today's people of Saxony speak a high German dialect while the people in the Franconian region speak a German that did not undergo the High German Sound Shift-

[@daveydaves9361]

interesting, I was always slightly confused as to why so many native brits had brown eyes and dark brown hair some even black hair but still had english sounding sirnames with no trace of Italian or spanish...it must have been so long ago when they migrated to britain like 1000 years ago as the latins are categorized as one of britians native peoples

[@MiloManning05]

No they are just Neolithic

[@anthonyphillips2874]

Oh dear, a woke history of Anglo Saxons that somehow includes Caribbeans😂, immigration from India and the Carribbean are recent and only a tiny part of our long history

[@guzelataroach4450]

inidans, nigerians are nor british.

[@speedo1105]

interestin, thank you

[@mariojakel5544]

first the name saxon don´t come from a knife its from a Axe and they still life in the same region with the Name lower saxony. The other part called saxon today is only the place where the Duke of Saxony build a new capital.

[@fez3416]

Short version: britain has german roots, its people, its monarchy, its culture .

[@timsmith2279]

According to Julius Caesar the tribes in Britain were similar in appearance, habits and customs to Celtic tribes in Gaul, present day France.

[@fez3416]

@@timsmith2279 yes could be ... still roots are the angles( german tribe) u guys want to think u r special but you wankers are german hahaha

[@user-sr3sf]

I see no difference between an average German and an average English. They are bothers.

[@daveoliver5838]

@@user-sr3sf The two are totally different racial groups. The original Germans like the original Russians have their roots in traders and travellers from Sweden, the Vikings ( blue eyed blondes). But the English are of Celtic origins, dark hair and dark eyes. Btw, In earlier times the blonde people sometimes described the English as Romans, because of their dark hair.